[steve86]

“Your navigation system in your car will call it the 405, but locals call it the 405.”

What does that mean?

[Citizen Soldier]

Maybe God is sick of the abuse going on there and movies and vice coming out of there. end days?

[Puppage]

The Dept of redundancy dept.

[Paladin2]

Four hundred - five vs. Four-Oh-Five.

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

Your GPS will show "405." Southern Californians always put the definite article "the" in front of their freeway numbers.

The 5, the 101, the 405: Why Southern Californians Love Saying 'the' Before Freeway Numbers
Why Do Southern Californians Say “The” Before Freeway Numbers?
How Los Angeles got in the habit of putting ‘the’ in front of every freeway name

I think it takes the place of saying "Ya-all."

[Not A Snowbird]

He misspoke a little bit, but I know what he meant.

Californians don’t talk about “Interstate 5” or the “San Diego Freeway”. All of the roads are referred to as “THE 5” or “THE 405”.

I’m a native, I grew up referring to roads that way.

[A message]

Your navigation system will say 405 while the natives precede all freeways in the region in conversation with the prefix “the”. THE 405, THE 605, THE 5, THE 110, etc

[Mazey]

It’s a quirk of Southern California, - maybe Northern California, or the West in general, - but folks never say “405 North”, they say “Take ‘The’ 405 North, or ‘take ‘The’ Foothill Freeway”, and the emphasis is put on the word “The”
My son-in-law (NJ) still makes fun of us for speaking of all highways that way, and we left California almost 30 years ago. To get to Massachusetts, take The 95!

Sorry, I previewed, and tried retyping twice, but the iPad is goofing up the caps!

[Mazey]

It’s a quirk of Southern California, - maybe Northern California, or the West in general, - but folks never say “405 North”, they say “Take ‘The’ 405 North, or ‘take ‘The’ Foothill Freeway”, and the emphasis is put on the word “The”
My son-in-law (NJ) still makes fun of us for speaking of all highways that way, and we left California almost 30 years ago. To get to Massachusetts, take The 95!

Sorry, I previewed, and tried retyping twice, but the iPad is goofing up the caps!

[Almondjoy]

Interstate Four hundred and five. Locals call it Four O Five... yes not Four Zero Five.